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The Great Merlini

The Great Merlini

The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 30s and early 40s, as well as in a few short stories. Merlini, The Great Merlini, The Great

Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. It is closely related to mystery fiction but generally contains more of a puzzle element that must be solved, generally by a single protagonist, either male or female. A common feature of detective fiction is an investigator who is unmarried, with some source of income other than a regular job, and who generally has some pleasing eccentricities or striking characteristics. He or she frequently has a less intelligent assistant, or foil, who is asked to make apparently irrelevant inquiries and acts as an audience surrogate for the explanation of the mystery at the end of the story.

Whodunit?

The most widespread subgenre of the detective novel is the whodunit (or whodunnit), where great ingenuity may be exercised in narrating the events of the crime and of the subsequent investigation in such a manner as to conceal the identity of the criminal from the reader until the end of the book, when the method and culprit are revealed. Early archetypes of these stories were the three Auguste Dupin tales by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1843), and "The Purloined Letter" (1844). Poe's detective stories have been described as ratiocinative tales. In stories such as these, the primary concern of the plot is ascertaining truth, and the usual means of obtaining the truth is through a complex and mysterious process combining intuitive logic, astute observation, and perspicacious inference. As a consequence, the crime itself sometimes becomes secondary to the efforts taken to solve it. "The Mystery of Marie Roget" is particularly interesting, as it is a barely fictionalized analysis of the circumstances of the real-life discovery of the body of a young woman named Mary Cecilia Rogers, in which Poe expounds his theory of what actually happened. The style of the analysis, with its attention to forensic detail, makes it a precursor if not the inspiration of the stories about the most famous of all fictional detectives, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, who in turn set the style for many others in later years, including Holmesian pastiches such as August Derleth's Solar Pons. Another early archetype of the whodunit is found as a sub-plot in the vast novel Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens. The conniving lawyer Tulkinghorn is killed in his office late one night, and the crime is investigated by Inspector Bucket of the Metropolitan force. Numerous characters appeared on the staircase leading to Tulkinghorn's office that night, some of them in disguise, and Inspector Bucket must penetrate these mysteries to identify the culprit. Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White. He is sometimes referred to as the "grandfather of English detective fiction." His novel The Moonstone (1868) was described by T. S. Eliot as "the first and greatest of English detective novels" and by Dorothy L. Sayers as "probably the very finest detective story ever written". Although technically preceded by Charles Felix's The Notting Hill Mystery (1865), The Moonstone can claim to have established the genre with several classic features of the twentieth-century detective story:
- A country house robbery
- An 'inside job'
- A celebrated investigator
- Bungling local constabulary
- Detective enquiries
- False suspects
- The 'least likely suspect'
- A rudimentary 'locked room' murder
- A reconstruction of the crime
- A final twist in the plot Some readers have suggested even earlier prototypes for the whodunit, most notably the Old Testament story of Susanna and the Elders (Daniel 13; in the Protestant Bible this story is found in the apocrypha) and the story of the dog and the horse related in the third chapter of Voltaire's Zadig (1747). However, popularity of this genre has only grown in time and even has made it into the [http://privatedick.blogspot.com online community].

The Private Eye Novel

Although the British private eye Martin Hewitt (by Arthur Morrison) had already appeared by 1894, the genre was adopted wholeheartedly by the likes of Dashiell Hammett, and were considered novels of the proletariat, exploring "mean streets" and the underbelly of corruption within the United States. Several movies have been based on his work, including three versions of The Maltese Falcon and a series of movies based on The Thin Man. Raymond Chandler updated the form with his private detective Philip Marlowe, who brought a more intimate voice to the detective than Hammett's distant-third viewpoint. His cadenced dialog and cryptic narrations were musical, evoking the alleys and tough thugs, rich women and powerful men about whom he wrote. Laced with commentary, his books still hold up. Several feature and television movies have been made about the Phillip Marlowe character. Ross Macdonald, pseudonym of Ken Millar, updated the form again with his detective Lew Archer, while still writing in what is considered the PI's Golden Age, begun by Hammett. Archer, like Hammett's fictional heroes, was a camera eye, with hardly any known past. "Turn Archer sideways, and he disappears," one reviewer wrote. Two of Macdonald's strengths were his use of psychology and his beautiful prose, which was full of imagery. Like other 'hardboiled' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation; this is illusory, however, and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated. The movie Harper starring Paul Newman was based on the Lew Archer character. Michael Collins, pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, is generally considered the author who led the form into the Modern Age. His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but he took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters' places in society and the impact society had on people. Full of commentary and clipped prose, his books were more intimate than his predecessors, dramatizing that crime can happen in one's own living room. The PI novel was a male-dominated field in which female authors seldom found publication until Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton were finally published in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Each author's detective was brainy, physical, and could hold her own. Their acceptance then success caused publishers to seek out other fine female authors. The PI today is rich in variety. The strongest characteristic that binds them is that the detective now has a past and a life, while solving cases. The premier authors' organization of PI writers is the Private Eye Writers of America.

Cosies

English readers between the wars generally preferred a different, but equally implausible, type of detective story in which an outsider - sometimes a salaried investigator or a police officer, but more often a gifted amateur - investigates a murder committed in a closed environment by one of a limited number of suspects. These have become known as 'cosies' to distinguish them from the 'hard-boiled' type preferred in the USA. The most popular writer of cosies, and one of the most popular writers of all time, was Agatha Christie, who produced a long series of books featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the baffled and misdirected reader to try and unravel. The 'puzzle' approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr, who also wrote as Carter Dickson, and John Rhode, whose detective Dr. Priestley specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the 'cosy' was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Erle Stanley Gardner. The popularity of cosies has declined in the last four decades, perhaps partly due to attacks on their 'unrealistic' approach; although given that their primary goal is to present a puzzle, one might as well attack a crossword or a chess problem for its unrealism. This subgenre is also known by many critics as the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. This does not mean that the writing in this subgenre is considered to be the best but it was used to describe the way in which writers in this era approached the writing of detective fiction. The most typical characteristic of this subgenre is the strict adherence to conventions of detective fiction. The "Golden Age" also displayed many elements typical of escapist writing and this was attributed to its popularity at the time as many wished to escape the depressing state brought about by World War..

Police procedural

Many detective stories have police officers as the main characters. Of course these stories may take many forms, but many authors try to go for a realistic depiction of a police officer's routine. A good deal are whodunits; in others the criminal is well known, and it is a case of getting enough evidence. Some typical features of these are:
- The detective is rarely the first on the crime scene - it will be milling with uniform, paramedics and possibly members of the public.
- Forensic reports - and the wait for them.
- Rules and regulations to follow - or not.
- Suspects arrested and kept in custody - sometimes wrongly.
- Pressure from senior officers to show progress.
- A large investigating team - two, three or four main characters, plus other officers to order about.
- Pubs - places to discuss or think about the case - especially in the Inspector Morse mysteries.
- Informants - to lean on.
- Political pressure when the suspects are prominent figures
- Internal hostility from comrades when the suspects are fellow police officers
- Pressure from the media (tv, newspapers) to come up with an answer
- Interesting and unusual cars driven by the principal detective

Other subgenres

There is also a subgenre of historical detectives. See historical whodunnit for an overview.

Suspense - the core tenet of detective fiction

A beginner to detective fiction would generally be advised against reading anything about a piece of detective fiction (such as a blurb or an introduction) before reading the text itself. Even if they do not mean to, advertisers, reviewers, scholars and aficionados usually have a habit of giving away details or parts of the plot, and sometimes -- for example in the case of Mickey Spillane's novel I, the Jury -- even the solution. (After the credits of Billy Wilder's film Witness for the Prosecution, the cinemagoers are asked not to talk to anyone about the plot so that future viewers will also be able to fully enjoy the unravelling of the mystery.)

The unresolved problem of plausibility and coincidence

Up to the present, some of the problems inherent in crime fiction have remained unsolved (and possibly also insoluble). Some of them can be dismissed with a shrug: Why bother at all, even if it is obvious to everyone that an ordinary person is not likely to keep stumbling across corpses? After all, this is just part of the game of crime fiction. Still the fact that an old spinster like Miss Marple meets with an estimated two bodies per year does raise a few doubts as to the plausibility of the Miss Marple mysteries. De Andrea has described the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having "put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah". Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years people who have met violent deaths have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, the cosy little village where she lives. Generally, therefore, it is much more convincing if a policeman, private eye, forensic expert or similar professional is made the hero or heroine of a series of crime novels. On the other hand, who cares for authenticity? Also, the role and legitimacy of coincidence has frequently been the topic of heated arguments ever since Knox categorically stated that "no accident must ever help the detective" (Commandment No.6). Technological progress has also rendered many of plots implausible and antiquated. For example, the use of mobile phones by practically everyone these days has significantly altered the dangerous situations that investigators traditionally find themselves in. Some authors have not succeeded in adapting to the changes brought about by modern technology; others, among them Carl Hiaasen (born 1953), have.

Famous fictional detectives

The full list of fictional detectives would be immense. The format is well suited to dramatic presentation, and so there are also many television and film detectives, besides those appearing in adaptations of novels in this genre. Fictional detectives generally fall within one of four domains:
- the amateur or dilettante detective (Marple, Jessica Fletcher);
- the private investigator (Holmes, Marlowe, Spade, Rockford);
- the police detective (Ironside, Kojak, Morse);
- more recently, the medical examiner, criminal psychologist, forensic evidence expert or other specialists (Scarpetta, Quincy, Cracker, CSI). Notable fictional detectives and their creators include:

Medical examiners, etc.

- Dr Thorndyke — R Austin Freeman
- Dr Priestley — John Rhode
- Reggie Fortune — H. C. Bailey
- Craig Kennedy — Arthur B. Reeve
- Dr Basil Willing — Helen McCloy
- Dr. Temperance Brennan — Kathy Reichs
- Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald (a criminal psychologist) — Jimmy McGovern: Cracker (TV)
- Gil Grissom, Ph.D. et al. — Anthony Zuiker: C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation
- Horatio "H." Caine et al. — Ann Donahue, Carol Mendelsohn & Anthony Zuiker: CSI: Miami (TV)
- Det. Mac Taylor et al. — Andrew Lipsitz & Janet Tamaro:CSI: NY (TV)
- Dr. Jane Halifax (a forensic psychologist) — Halifax f.p. (TV)
- Daphne Matthews, forensic psychologist — Ridley Pearson
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E. — Glen A. Larson & Lou Shaw: Quincy, M.E. (TV)
- Dr. Kay Scarpetta — Patricia Cornwell
- Dr. John H. Watson — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dr. Joseph Bell

Others

- Anthony Blake (Anthony Dorian in pilot episode) (magician) — Larry Brody: The Magician (TV)
- Jonathan Creek (designer of illusions for a magician) — David Renwick: Jonathan Creek (TV)
- Insp. J. Auguste Dupin, from short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. One of the earliest fictional detectives.
- Perry Mason (lawyer) — Erle Stanley Gardner
- Ben Matlock (lawyer) — Dean Hargrove: Matlock (TV)
- Tony Petrocelli (lawyer) — Harold Buchman & Sidney J. Furie: Petrocelli (TV)
- Tarot (magician) — Trevor Preston: Ace of Wands (TV)
- Arsène Lupin (gentleman-thief) Maurice Leblanc
- Batman (vigilante/superhero) — Bob Kane and Bill Finger, first appearance in 1939 comic book Detective Comics #27 (Comics, TV, Movies)
- Robert Langdon (Professor of Religious Symbology) — Dan Brown
- Takeshi Kovacs (Ultraviolent soldier turned investigator) — Richard Morgan

And for younger readers

- Encyclopedia Brown — Donald J. Sobol
- Nancy Drew — Carolyn Keene and others
- The Famous Five — Enid Blyton
- The Hardy Boys — Franklin W. Dixon and others
- The Secret Seven — Enid Blyton
- The Three Investigators — Robert Arthur and others

Historical

:In chronological order.
- Gordianus the Finder (Roman Republic of the 1st century BCE) — Steven Saylor: Roma sub Rosa series
- Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger (Roman Republic of the 1st century BCE) — John Maddox Roberts: SPQR series
- Marcus Didius Falco (the Roman Empire of the 1st century CE) — Lindsey Davis
- Judge Dee (7th-century China) — Robert van Gulik
- Sister Fidelma (7th-century Ireland) — Peter Tremayne
- Li Kao (7th-century China) — Barry Hughart
- Brother Cadfael (12th-century England and Wales) — Ellis Peters
- Brother William of Baskerville (1327) — Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
- Brother Athelstan (late 14th century London) — P. C. Doherty (as Paul Harding)

In science fiction and fantasy

- Basil Argyros — Harry Turtledove (Byzantine Empire)
- Marty Burns — Jay Russell (writer)
- Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw — Isaac Asimov
- Lord Darcy — Randall Garrett
- Hawk and Fisher — Simon Green
- Dirk Gently — Douglas Adams
- Gil "the ARM" Hamilton (of the Amalgated Regional Militia [UN police] in the early known space history — Larry Niven
- Jonas, der letzte Detektiv — well done funny & hardboiled radio play in Germany
- Kline Maxwell — S. Andrew Swann (a journalist in Dragons of the Cuyahoga)
- Tex Murphy — Aaron Conners
- Nohar Rajasthan — S. Andrew Swann
- Sam Space — William Nolan
- Wendell Urth — Isaac Asimov
- His Grace Commander Sir Samuel Vimes — Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Other notable authors

- Leigh Brackett
- Alan Gordon
- Jack Vance

Detective debuts and swansongs

Many detectives appear in more than one novel or story. Here is a list of a few debut and swansong stories:

Books

- Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel - A History by Julian Symons ISBN 0571094651
See also

- List of detective fiction authors
- Crime fiction
- Mystery fiction
- List of crime writers
- Whodunit
External resources

- [http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/ Classic Crime Fiction Website]
- [http://members.aol.com/rrandisi/myhomepage/writing.html Private Eye Writers of America website]
- [http://book.awardannals.com/genre/mystery/ Most Honored Mystery Books] Category:Fiction
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Clayton Rawson

Clayton Rawson (1906 - 1971) was a mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. His four novels frequently invoke his great knowledge of stage magic and feature as their fictional detective The Great Merlini. He was born in Elyria, Ohio, the son of Clarence D. and Clara (Smith) Rawson. He became a magician when he was 8 years old. He married his wife, Catherine Stone, the same year he graduated from Ohio State University (1929); they had four children together. He moved to Chicago and lived there, working as an illustrator. His first novel appeared in 1938, Death from a Top Hat. He was one of the four founding members of the Mystery Writers of America, which also present annual prizes in various categories of mystery fiction. All of his fine novels were written before the founding of this group. At least two movies were made based on the Merlini books. One them, Miracles for Sale, 1939, was evidently based on the Merlini exploits in general and had no character named Merlini. A 1942 movie called The Man Who Wouldn't Die was based on No Coffin for the Corpse but the Merlini character was changed to that of a popular fictional private eye of the time, Michael Shayne.

Bibliography

Mystery novels

- Death from a Top Hat (1938)
- The Footprints on the Ceiling (1939)
- The Headless Lady (1940)
- No Coffin for the Corpse (1942)

Collections of short stories

- Death Out of Thin Air (1941) (as Stuart Towne)
- Pictures Don't Lie (1950)
- The Great Merlini (1979)

Other books

- Scarne on Dice (1945) (with John Scarne)
- Al Baker's Pet Secerts (1951) (with Albert Baker)
- How to Entertain Children with Magic you can do (1963) (as The Great Merlini)
- The Golden Book of Magic: Amazing Tricks for Young Magicians (1964) (as The Great Merlini)

Movies

- Miracles for Sale (1939) (Death From A Top Hat)
- The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942) (No Coffin For The Corpse)

External link

- [http://www.cityfujisawa.ne.jp/~katsurou/mystery/rawson/ A listing of his works] Click on green thumbtack to see an exhaustive list of his books and short stories. Rawson, Clayton Rawson, Clayton ja:クレイトン・ロースン

Locked room mystery

__NOTOC__ In crime fiction, a locked room mystery (or cosy) is a particular kind of mystery story, where a murder is apparently committed under impossible circumstances: no one could have entered or left the scene of the crime, and it could not have been a suicide. Such stories normally follows other conventions of detective fiction, in that the reader is presented with the puzzle and all of the clues, and so encouraged to solve it before finishing the story and being told the solution. The invention of this genre is credited to French journalist/author, Gaston Leroux with Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (The Mystery of the Yellow Room ) (1908). Another early example in the genre is "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe. Even though the genre wasn't established until the 19th and 20th centuries the apocalyptic Biblical story of Bel and the Dragon has elements of the genre in it. This sub-genre of detective fiction flourished with the popularity of writers like John Dickson Carr, Clayton Rawson, and Agatha Christie. Typically, a "locked room" in this narrow meaning of the word—also referred to as a "hermetically sealed chamber"—is a room in which a murder is committed. There are a limited number of suspects, some of them possibly even without a watertight alibi. But on closer inspection, it turns out that no one could possibly have perpetrated the murder, because at the time the murder was committed, there was definitely no way of entering and/or leaving the room unseen or without leaving a trace. The prima facie impression, almost invariably would be that the perpetrator has vanished into thin air. (See "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" for Poe's statement of the "rules" of the locked-room mystery.)

Examples

The following are examples of "impossible" or "locked-room" crimes:
- The only door, locked from the inside, has to be forced open (and the position of the body clearly suggests that the victim could not have locked it after being struck down by the killer).
- There is no fireplace or chimney through which the murderer might have escaped.
- The only window is barred from the inside, or there is virgin snow on the window sill outside.
- There is no secret passage leading to, or trapdoor anywhere in, the room.
- The murder weapon is nowhere to be found although the victim has clearly been poisoned, stabbed, shot or strangled (with the cause of death established beyond doubt in an autopsy some time later).
- If the victim has been electrocuted, no live wires can be found anywhere near the corpse; if they have been shot, no one within usual hearing distance remembers hearing a report. These "facts" strain the interest of the reader, and build up a palpitating curiosity to crack the truth, and explains the huge popularity of such novels. In many locked room mysteries, plausibility was neglected in favour of ingenuity and maximum reader involvement to appeal to this sense of curious suspense. Among avid readers, heated discussions ensued after the publication of a particular novel on whether it is really possible to commit the perfect murder the way it is described in the book. Some example loopholes that a reader may find:
- If the victim is found stabbed in a locked room on one of the upper floors of a building, no murder weapon is found and a window giving onto a backyard has been left open, could they have been killed by a professional knife-thrower from the building across the yard by means of a knife to which a long cord was attached? (This is a variation on the "dagger with wings" idea.)
- Can eye-witnesses be deluded into thinking they have seen a particular person enter or leave a room when in fact what they saw was just an image in a mirror?
- Can people gain access to a house by posing as someone else, wearing clothes made of paper, and then getting rid of them—as they would be evidence if they did not—by burning them in the open fire?
- The "polar poniard", a dagger made of ice that melts before the murder is discovered.

Authors and works

One of the masters of the locked-room subgenre is John Dickson Carr. His novel The Hollow Man is considered by many to be the finest locked room mystery novel of all time—although Carr himself names Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room as his favourite. The Hollow Man gives an explicatory recipe for crime writers. Chapter 17 of the book, consists of a theoretical digression entitled "The Locked-Room Lecture". In it, Dr Gideon Fell (the detective) gives an extensive explanation of how the murderer is able to deceive everyone else (at least until the riddle is finally solved). How, for example, Fell asks, can the perpetrator create the impression of a hermetically sealed chamber when in fact it is not? What means are there of tampering with a door so that it seems to be locked on the inside? This is just one of the answers -- and, as it happens, a most simple one -- given by Fell: :[...] An illusion, simple but effective. The murderer, after committing his crime, has locked the door from the outside and kept the key. It is assumed, however, that the key is still in the lock on the inside. The murderer, who is first to raise a scare and find the body, smashes the upper glass panel of the door, puts his hand through with the key concealed in it, and finds the key in the lock inside, by which he opens the door. This device has also been used with the breaking of a panel out of an ordinary wooden door. Many authors have tried their hand at new and far-fetched yet eventually plausible locked-room scenarios, with one of the underlying principles always being that supernatural powers or any form of magic must be ruled out from the start. American writer Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) wrote Initials Only (1911), Margery Allingham (1904–1966) exploited the same motif in Flowers for the Judge (1936), and many more joined the ranks. Paul Auster's book, The Locked Room, takes its title from locked room mysteries. Classic specimens of the genre include:
- John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man (1935), He Who Whispers (1946), The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941), The Problem of the Green Capsule (1937) and The Crooked Hinge (1938)
- Carter Dickson's The Judas Window and The White Priory Murders
- Clayton Rawson's four Merlini novels, the most celebrated of which is the first, Death from a Top Hat (1938)
- Agatha Christie's Death in the Clouds (1935), And Then There Were None (1939) and Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
- Nicholas Blake's Thou Shell of Death (1935)
- Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room
- Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery
- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)
- Ellery Queen's The Greek Coffin Mystery
- Hake Talbot's Rim of the Pit in which it appears the murderer has come back from the dead to take revenge on the living
- Melville Davisson Post's "The Doomdorf Mystery"
- Many of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories, notably "The Secret Garden", "The Invisible Man," "The Wrong Shape," "The Oracle of the Dog," "The Dagger with Wings" and "The Miracle of Moon Crescent"
- French author Paul Halter (born in 1957) wrote over thirty locked room or impossible crime mysteries including La Malédiction de Barberousse, La Quatrième Porte, Le Brouillard Rouge, La Septième Hypothèseand Le Crime de Dédale. Strongly influenced by John Dickson Carr he is still much more than a copycat and developed a quite individual approach over the years. None of his books has been translated into English to date, but a short story of his, The Call of the Lorelei was published by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 2004.

Television

- Jonathan Creek, the UK television series, combines this theme with that of magic.
- Banacek was an American television series whose investigator hero specialized in locked-room thefts and other "impossible" mysteries. Typical examples were the theft of valuable paintings from a moving truck that was being watched by guards in a trailing vehicle; the vanishing of a rocket engine from a display stage when the lights momentarily went out; and the disappearance of a football player while beneath a pile of tacklers, in view of thousands of spectators and a live TV audience.

External link

- [http://www.classiccrimefiction.com Detective Fiction Resource Site] Category:Detective fiction

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The Great Merlini

Detective fiction

Whodunit?

The Private Eye Novel

Cosies

Police procedural

Other subgenres

Suspense - the core tenet of detective fiction

The unresolved problem of plausibility and coincidence

Famous fictional detectives

Amateurs

Private eyes

Police detectives

Medical examiners, etc.

Others

And for younger readers

Historical

In science fiction and fantasy

Other notable authors

Detective debuts and swansongs

Books

See also

External resources

Clayton Rawson

Bibliography

Mystery novels

Collections of short stories

Other books

Movies

External link

Locked room mystery

Examples

Authors and works

Television

See also

External link

Category:Fictional detectives

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